Beaver Creek Cabin (MT)
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:36 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Creek Cabin is a primitive, rustic cabin located within the Custer Gallatin National Forest, in an area that offers a variety of recreational activities. The cabin is situated 3.5 miles down Forest Service Road 985. The cabin is accessible by vehicle when there is no snow, but it is only by snowmobile, skis, or snowshoes when there is snow. Guests are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety, and they must bring several of their own amenities. During the spring and fall, guests are encouraged to call the Hebgen Lake Ranger District at (406) 823-6961 for road conditions and access to the cabin. Keep reading
Recreation
Several trailheads near the cabin lead into the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. These trails take hikers and equestrians to high mountain lakes within the Madison Range. There is a hitching rail provided for stock use. Other trails on the forest offer access to ATV/UTV and motorcycles. Winter activities include snowmobiling, showshoeing, and cross-country skiing. Hunting and fishing are available nearby. Hebgen Lake is within 10 miles, offering many other recreational opportunities.
Facilities
This is a primitive cabin. It accommodates a maximum of 5 people, with a seven night stay maximum per group. 3 basic sleeping pads are provided. A wood stove heats the cabin, and firewood is provided for the interior wood stove through certain dates. Firewood is limited and provided October 1st - May 31st for indoor use only . Other amenities include an axe, shovel, bucket, and table with chairs. There is a sleeping loft and two bunk beds. No water or electricity is available at the cabin. Guests must either bring drinking water or treat water they retrieve from natural sources. It is also recommended that guests bring their own cooking stoves. Garbage bags are needed to pack out trash. A stock pot is provided for boiling water. It is strongly recommended that campers bring their own back country cookware and dishes for use. Items such as bedding, flashlights or lanterns, first aid supplies, and extra toilet paper are also not available at the cabin.
Natural Features
The cabin sits at an elevation of around 7,000 feet in a wooded canyon near Beaver Creek and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. It is nestled within the Madison Range and tucked beneath 11,316-foot Hilgard Peak, the highest in the range. Visitors to this area may see an abundance of wildlife, such as deer, elk, grizzly bears, moose, and bighorn sheep. A variety of bird species also inhabit the area.
Nearby Attractions
Yellowstone National Park is within 30 miles, making it an ideal day trip from Beaver Creek Cabin. Other attractions include; Hebgen Lake, Earthquake lake and the Earthquake Lake Visitor Center, and Henry's Lake State Park Accross the Idaho Border.
What the agency tells you
Please be aware that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is not cleaning this rental cabin between user visits. To protect health and safety for all cabin visitors, we recommend you clean all "high touch surfaces" when you arrive and before you leave. Cleaning supplies are not provided; you are expected to bring your own. Leave nothing behind - pack it in, pack it out. Please take any garbage, food, books, and personal items with you. Immediately report any unsanitary conditions to the local Ranger Station.
Make sure to have the lock combination for the cabin door; the combination code to the cabin is included in the confirmation e-mail or letter.
Water is not available in the cabin; water obtained from nearby natural water sources should be treated prior to use.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Grizzly bears frequent the area; store all coolers, food, beverages, stock feed, and garbage inside the cabin. Hebgen Lake Ranger staff will be patrolling for compliance with the Food Storage Order in the cabin vicinity throughout the season.
No garbage service. Please bring garbage bags and pack out all trash and personal belongings.
Candles are not permitted inside the cabin.
Hay and feed brought to the site for stock must be certified weed-free.
FIREWOOD ROUNDS IN WOODSHED ARE LIMITED TO INDOOR USE ONLY. Availability of firewood cannot be guaranteed. Firewood is not provided from June 1st to September 30th.
Do not leave pets unattended.
Weather conditions vary. Please check forcast and road conditions before your visit.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 24 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…at the cabin. Guests must either bring drinking water or treat water they retrieve from natural sources.…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Winter sports
- Night sky · 169th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 16:36 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 16:36 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA BEAVER CREEK CABIN | 001 | cabin nonelectric | 24 ft | 362 ft | 95 ft | $65 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cabin Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 3.1 mi
Beaver Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 3.9 mi
Cabin Creek CabinCabin Creek Wildlife And Recreation Management Area · 8.0 mi
Wapiti CabinGallatin National Forest · 9.3 mi
Spring Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 9.9 mi
Eldridge Guard StationGallatin National Forest · 11 miSummer access from West Yellowstone: Proceed 8 miles north on U.S. Highway 191. Turn left onto U.S. Highway 287/Hebgen Lake Road and continue for 14.5 miles. Turn right on Beaver Creek Road/Forest Service Road 985 and drive for 3.5 miles. The cabin access road is on the right side of Beaver Creek Road. The cabin is 300 yards down the access road. You must open a locked gate to enter the access road. The combo for the gate is the same combo provided to unlock the cabin in the confirmation letter. Please keep the gate closed and locked at all times. Winter access from West Yellowstone: Proceed 8 miles north on U.S. Highway 191. Turn left onto U.S. Highway 287/Hebgen Lake Road and continue for 14.5 miles. Park at the Refuge Point parking lot, adjacent to the highway. Do not park on the highway. Snowmobile, ski, or snowshoe from the parking lot, approximately an eighth of a mile west, to Beaver Creek Road/Forest Service Road 985. Turn right and continue north 3.5 miles to the cabin, on the right side of the road.
During the spring and fall, guests are encouraged to call the Hebgen Lake Ranger District at (406) 823-6961 for road conditions and access to the cabin.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hebgen Lake Estates, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 4°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) is in Montana’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Ryan Zinke (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyRyan K. ZinkeU.S. Representative · Montana’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationSteve DainesU.S. Senator · Montana
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTim SheehyU.S. Senator · Montana
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana
Dear Ryan K. Zinke, I’m a constituent in Montana’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Creek Cabin (MT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) (Gallatin National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana
Dear Steve Daines, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Creek Cabin (MT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) (Gallatin National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana
Dear Tim Sheehy, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT), Gallatin National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Creek Cabin (MT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Creek Cabin (MT) (Gallatin National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com